[XQZone General] Re: How to pass Node as a parameter through XDBC?

[Michael Blakeley]

> Juvvadi, Venugopal (ELS) wrote:
> 
> 
>>> I am assuming that I can specify node as an external parameter in XQuery 
>>> but I am not sure whether Mark Logic supports this or not.
>>> 
>>> Mark Logic XDBC Statement interface does not provide any method to pass 
>>> Node as a parameter to XQuery unless I am missing something. Is there a 
>>> work around for this?

The usual technique is to pass in the serialized node as a string, then
use xdmp:unquote() to parse it into an element again:

define variable $xml-string as xs:string external
define variable $element as element() { xdmp:unquote($xml-string) }

xdmp:describe($element)

-- Mike